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Articles | Volume 10, issue 2
Articles | Volume 10, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-10-873-2024
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https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-10-873-2024
© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 10, issue 2
Original research article
 | 
06 Dec 2024
Original research article |  | 06 Dec 2024

Soil is a major contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions and climate change

Peter M. Kopittke, Ram C. Dalal, Brigid A. McKenna, Pete Smith, Peng Wang, Zhe Weng, Frederik J. T. van der Bom, and Neal W. Menzies

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Soil produces 98.8 % of the calories consumed by humans, but the contribution that the anthropogenic use of soil makes to global warming is not clear. We show that soil has contributed 15 % of the total global warming caused by well-mixed greenhouse gases. Thus, our finding that soil is a substantial contributor to global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions represents a "wicked problem" – how do we continue to increase food production from soil whilst also decreasing emissions?
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